Bash Tips: Calendar & Date

I just learned about this tiny utility within Bash. It's nothing special, but just loved how easy and how clean it was.

Within a terminal window, executing the cal command will provide you with a calendar. The following is an example:

> cal
   December 2019
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

Also within a terminal window, executing the date command will provide you with a formatted datetime string.

> date
Mon Dec  2 14:06:58 CET 2019